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EDWARD J. GRUBLE 

 Are there any comments or questions? 



MR. HARRIS: I would like to offer a correc- 

 tion, Mr. Gruble. On Page 5 you mentioned the 1957 

 Legislature. That was the 1967 Legislature. 



MR. GRUBLE; Thank you, Mr. Harris. Yes, 

 that is a misprint. 



CHAIRMAN STEIN: There is one more point. 

 You know, some people get after us, some after the State, 

 some after the industries, some like or don't like the 

 report. But I think the state of the law and the Federal 

 policy is that we are going to work in cooperation with the 



State Water Pollution Control authorities in dealing with 

 the pollution problem and we would hope, if we can get a 

 successful conclusion to this Conference, that the day-to- 

 day operation will rest with the State agency. 



I think that this should be made abundantly 

 clear. We are here to assist the State and work with the 

 State and do something like this, but I do not think the 

 present scope of the Federal law is such, and I am not sure 

 that it even should be desirably such, that the Federal 

 Government should be responsible for controlling pollution 

 of the navigable waters. The primary rights and respon- 

 sibilities for this rest with the states, and in the case 

 of Puget Sound it does rest with the State of Washington. 



